ING Direct Australia shares 12 BI tips

Implementing business intelligence (BI) can be a process fraught with pitfalls but avoiding this is easy if companies follow certain processes, advises financial services company, ING Direct Australia. Continue Reading ShareDiggPrintEmail

UK gets its own version of English in Windows 8

Microsoft’s Windows 8 operating system will have the U.K. version of English as a display language option, to address customers in that country, and some other countries like South Africa, India, Ireland, and Australia that use the version of the language. Continue...

Toyota Australia puts BI in top gear

Budget blowouts and delays were hampering IT projects at Toyota Australia until the car manufacturer rolled out a new business intelligence (BI) model. Continue Reading ShareDiggPrintEmail

Teradata partners with Hortonworks on Hadoop

The growing enterprise interest in Big Data analytics is beginning to drive partnerships between vendors of traditional relational database management technologies and purveyors of the open source Apache Hadoop. Continue Reading ShareDiggPrintEmail

Wi-Fi Passpoint standard could end hotspot sign-on hassles

The Wi-Fi Alliance will launch a program to simplify the use of Wi-Fi hotspots in July, making it easier for both users and mobile operators to get off strained cellular networks. Continue Reading ShareDiggPrintEmail

Apple moves toward digital unity with Mountain Lion

Apple surprised the tech world last week by pulling the curtain back on its latest desktop/laptop operating system: OS X Mountain Lion. The final version will be released this summer, but the developer preview unveiled on Thursday shows that the upcoming OS picks up where OS X 10.7 — code-named Lion — left off. The coming update incorporates even...